Lacing-eyelet.



5. O. LANGFORD.

LACING EYELET.

APPLICATWN FILED MN. l'. l9l8.

Patented Apr. 8,1919.

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LAUING-EYELET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 8, 1919.

Application led January 7,1918. Serial No. 210,676.

To all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH OSCAR LANG- roRD, a citizen of the United States, residin at El Paso, in the county of El Paso and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lacing-Eyelets,

' of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to eyelet devices for supporting lacings .in shoes, corsets, leggings and the like, and has for one of its objects to improve the construction and increase the eiliciency and utility of devices of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which may be uickly applied to the confronting edges of t e garment without structuralchange in the garment, or injuring or weakening the material of the garment.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the attachments are precisely alike so that they may be manufactured in quantities and interchangeably applied to the garment, s0 that a broken or impaired attachment may be readily replaced, or the attachments transferred from one garment to another.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

The improved device may be applied without structural change to various forms of garments in" which lacings are employed as a fastening means, such as shoes, corsets, leggings and the like, and it is not desired to limit the invention to any specific garment, but for the purpose of illustration the device is shown applied to a shoe, and in the drawin igure 1 is a perspective view of a shoe with the improved attachment ap lied.

Fi 2 is an enlarged detail o the confronting edges of a garment opening with the attachment ap lied.

Fig. 3 is an end view of one of the attachments applied to one side ortion of a garment, the garment portions eing in section.

Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a view of one of the blanks from which one of the members of the attachment is constructed.

Fig. 6 is a view of the holdingwasher or plate of the improved device.

Fig. 7 is a viewof a blank illustrating a modified form of the construction.

Fi 8 is a view similar to Fig. 2, illustratingt e device constructed as shown in Fig. 7 and applied to a portion of a garment. F Fig 9 is a section on the line 9--9 of When constructed in one form the improved device comprises a body portion 10, preferably elliptical in outline as shown in Fig. 5, with projections 11 extending from the longer ends and a heavier projection 12 extending from one side. A holding plate, represented as a whole at 13, is employed as shown in Fig. 6 and provided with openings 14 near the ends. The longer larger projection 12 is bent into an eye as shown at 15 in Fig. 4, and the projections 11 bent substantially at right angles to the longitudinal plane of the body 10. In applying the device a pair of the body portions 10 are disposed upon the garment, for instance the upper portion 16 of a shoe, at o posite sides of the opening, and apertures A ormed in the material of the garment through which the projections or spurs 11 are forced, and the apertures 14; of the holding member 13 disposed over the projecting portions of the spurs and the latter bent or clenched over the inner face of the member 13, and suiiicient pressure applied to firmly clamp the body 10 and the plate 13 to the garment.

VThe eyelets 15 thus stand -in opposite relation and at opposite sides of the opening in the garment, and are thus disposed in position to receive a lacing, represented as a Whole at 17. In applying the lacing the latter is doubled intermediate its ends upon itself and the terminals threaded through the lowermost pair of the eyes 15. The two parts of the lacing are then crossed and passed through the next pair of eyes, and so on throughout the series as shown in Fi 1. The lacings are then drawn relatively tight and the two parts tied together as illustrated at 18. When the arment is to be removed the knot 18 is untied and the lacings loosened by drawing them through the eyelets in the same manner as an ordinary shoe lacing is loosened until a suicient slack is produced to enable the garment to be removed. The garment may thus be laced by simply rawing the two parts of the lacing through the various eyes and tying their `free ends together. It is not necessary to remove the lacings from the eyes, but simply to loosen them to a sufficient extent to produce the necessary slack.

In Figs. 7, 8 and 9 a slight modification in the construction is shown consisting in forming a plate 19, corres onding to the plate 13, upon the termina of the projection 12 and providing the member 19 With apertures. 20 correspondin to the apertures 14 in the plate 18. In app ying the modified form `ofthe device to a garment the portion 12 is bent into a loop as shown at 21 in Figs. 8 and 9, and the projections 11 passed through the apertures 20 and clenched or bent over the inner face of the portion 19 in the same manner as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4f. By this arrangement the body portion, the loop or eye, and the holding plate are integral or stamped or pressed rom a sinIgIle piece.

aving thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a flat elongated body adapted to engage the outer face of a garment and having anchoring projections at diametrically opposite ends and extendin in the same longitudinal plane therewitl and a lateral projection intermediate the end projections and of substantially the same Width as said end projections, the end projections being bendable substantially at right angles to the body and said intermediate projection bendable into a closed loop, and a iiat holding plate adapted to engage the inner face of a garment and having oppositely disposed apertures spaced inwardly from the marginal edge thereof and adapted to receive the anchoring projections of the body.

2. A device of the class described comprising a flat elongated body adapted to engage the outer face of a garment and having anchoring projections at diametrically o ,poste ends .and extending in the same long1tudinal plane therewith and a lateral projection intermediate the end projections and of substantially the same Width as said end projections, the end projections bein bendable substantially at right angles to t e body and said intermediate projection being bendable into a closed loop adapted to be positioned Wholly on the outer face of said garment, and a flat holding late of greater area than the body adapted) to engage the inner faceA of a garment and extendingfrom the lateral projection and provided with oppositely disposed apertures spaced inwardly from the marginal edge ofthe holding plate and adapted to receive the anchoring projections of the body.

3. A device of the class described comprising a flat elongated body having a curved outer edge and provided with diametrically disposed anchoring projections extending in the salne longitudinal plane with the body and provided with square terminals, there being an intermediate lateral rojection eX- tending from the inner edge o the body and of substantially the same Width as the anchoring projections, said intermediate rojection terminating in a substantially e liptical-shapedholding plate having oppositely disposed apertures formed therein and spaced inwardly from the marginal edge thereof, the intermediate projection being bendable'to form a closed loop adapted to be positioned Wholly on one side of a garment and the Vanchorin projections being adapted to extend throng the apertures in the holding plate to secure the device in position on said garment.

In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature.

JosErH o. LANGFORD. [1.. 5.]

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